Thanks Paul. I greatly appreciate your help. I would imagine that building
Emacs with a more modern gcc compiler could potentially make Emacs run
slightly faster, although the benefits may be marginal if at all
noticeable, correct? Feature-wise, I am probably not missing much if
anything I guess.

Either way, and just to confirm, I presume that if I  download and build
glibc and gcc in a local folder I could eventually compile and run Emacs
with a more recent version of gcc/glibc. This would be a long term project
for me, but if you have any pointers on how to put something like this
together without admin privileges that would be great.

Other than that, I am all set. Thanks again for your all help,

James


On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 03/13/13 13:15, James Jong wrote:
> > I was able to build Emacs 24.3 stable release properly with the system's
> installation of gcc:
> >  ./configure CC=/usr/bin/gcc --without-gif
> --prefix=/home/avazquez/raid/opt/emacs/releases/emacs-24.3
> > make
> > make install
>
> Excellent!
>
> > I have now tried to build Emacs with a newer version of gcc such as
> 4.7.2 with no luck:
>
> Why bother?  You have something that works.
>
> Newer versions of GCC are not compatible with ancient versions of
> the GNU C library, particularly if you're trying to use some of
> the newer fortification options.  Sorry.  But this is not Emacs's
> problem; it's a problem with your build environment.
>